Cars whiz past, a few bikes too, as concrete bumpers and painted lines slowly grow at the edge of the busy street.
But as reliably as time passes, the two groups show up to the sidewalk, stand there a few feet apart and yell.
The protesters and counter-protesters who have demonstrated every week since early December share a belief that an effort to overhaul a bustling 2-mile stretch of Archer Avenue in Brighton Park with pedestrian-friendly features will have massive consequences.
And the small, relentless Southwest Side fight is over more than just that construction project. It’s the latest front in a
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